US launches fresh air strikes on IS jihadists in Iraq
Washington, United States – The US military launched new strikes on Islamic State forces in Iraq, using fighter and attack aircraft to carry out strikes near the Mosul dam and Amerli, the Pentagon said on Sunday. “The strike near Amerli damaged an ...
Iraq: US carries out two more air strikes against ISIL
Washington: US forces continued their attack on ISIL militants in northern Iraq with two more air strikes conducted on Sunday, the army said.The two air strikes carried out by fighter jets include one near the Mosul Dam, and the other near the town of ...
Why terror group in Iraq, Syria has many names
The Guardian reports that an influential Egyptian group has requested that Western observers make a crucial nomenclature change. Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta, which the Guardian describes as “a wing of the Egyptian justice ministry … [and] a source of ...
President Bush declared Iraq a 'catastrophic success' ten years ago
The disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq wasn't just an American war of choice. As much as anything else, it was a war of talking points. Designed, as President Bush once explained, to "catapult the propaganda," the tried and untrue sound bites about "the ...
U.S. and Iran Unlikely Allies in Iraq Battle
BAGHDAD — With American bombs raining down from the sky, Shiite militia fighters aligned with Iran battled Sunni extremists over the weekend, punching through their defenses to break the weekslong siege of Amerli, a cluster of farming villages whose ...
Germany Sends 16,000 Rifles to Iraq to Stem Islamic State
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is sending 16,000 assault rifles, plus anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles, to Iraqi Kurds fighting Islamic State militants, lifting a German taboo on shipments into war zones. The hardware, which also includes ...
